SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS. You must build a lean, impactful team to help your business scale. Hire a Junior Team You can recruit your junior team from investment banking or other Strategic Finance teams. Sign up for free HERE

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2023

Whether you’re going from nothing to something or already scaling and thriving beyond $10-100M, healthy, sustainable growth in SaaS is on every founder’s mind. Cockroach Labs’ CEO Spencer Kimball shares hard-won lessons from scaling from $0 to $5B and his time as an angel investor for more than 80 different startups. Ideas Are Cheap.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

But these days, there are so many innovative and impactful tools that can massively streamline your workflows and help to set you up for success as you scale. This is especially important for small teams, where you need to operate at a scale far beyond your headcount (without burning out your team by working around the clock).

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

When the deal is done, the purchase agreement signed, and the wire lands in your bank account, what happens next? What will fill the void left by the business you worked hard to build, scale, and sell? It might be awful. Few founders get to the enviable position of being able to sell their company. It might be awesome.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I saw we had the opportunity to do that in London and to do something that will be new for Facebook, in the same way that AWS was a new business model and product line for Amazon and a bet that paid off very well. Julien: Next for Workplace, we have to keep scaling the business. It’s about turning companies into communities.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

When the deal is done, the purchase agreement signed, and the wire lands in your bank account, what happens next? What will fill the void left by the business you worked hard to build, scale, and sell? It might be awful. Few founders get to the enviable position of being able to sell their company. It might be awesome.

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Upscope

JUNE 9, 2021

Working as a apple tech was awful but for the rude customers I would put on hold while I went outside to chat with co workers or grab something from the vending machine. I don't have a thick skin, which probably made it about 15 times worse, but I still can't think about it without having awful flashbacks. What can we learn from this?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 19, 2020

Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, and responsible communication for each prospect every time, enabling personalization at scale that was previously impossible. What we observed is that an awful lot of top sellers already do this stuff.

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Frontegg

JUNE 30, 2021

Finally, when the business has unlimited possibilities for expansion, all the costs involved become smaller in scale as you expand. We will see later that the technologies integrated into AWS allow this difficulty to be quickly resolved. How to Build a Multi-tenant SaaS Application on AWS? Organize Your Databases with DynamoDB.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

It’s suitable for businesses wanting control over their infrastructure and the ability to scale. Key examples are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, which provide scalable resources like virtual servers and storage. What are the benefits of the SaaS model?

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Customer success teams are basically about building at scale this self-serve engine. ” Bank, please reimburse this charge for me. That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more. and have a bank account in the U.S. You’re gonna have chargebacks.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

One thing we’ve learned in helping our founders and operators scale their businesses is that cash is one of their most precious resources. That’s why we’ve not only switched our own banking over at GTMfund, but we’ve also partnered with Flex to help companies improve the way they manage their cashflow. Sponsor shoutout: Flex.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

It’s probably that you’re small, you have very little revenue, you have a couple of employees maybe, you’re probably struggling, maybe your bank accounts are stretched, you’re probably incredibly stressed. It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I went to the banks with this idea. It’s brutal.

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Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

As explained in the first part of this series, we clearly saw why Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is the way to go when it comes to establishing self-serving applications that can be scaled up and developed fast(er). Non-cloud use cases like banking and finance businesses. What’s it right for? The cost of isolation is put on customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

We’ve done that with a number of software vendors, probably most notably AWS, because AWS is just so expensive that they’re able to offer a pretty big discount to our customers. Bank account underwriting may not be the best for everything, but it’s certainly the best for people that don’t make money.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

I think one challenging thing is when you look at the scale of organizations and you think about change management with new tools. It’s kind of like how, no matter who your bank is, that bank kind of wants to be mint.com, but the experience is never really right. Harry Stebbings: Terrible metaphor.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

We can save companies $100,000 on their AWS bill. Everybody wants to save $100,000 on their AWS bill right now. We want to tell anybody that listens, you can save $100,000 on your AWS bill and demos are actually as high as they’ve ever been in late stage tech. We found something that works. Jason Lemkin: Got it. .”

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

At the end of the day, Twilio still sells communications, AWS still sells servers, but the way we’re selling it is different than how it was done in yesteryear. You’ve seen more CIO level pull or what’s changed there over time as you’ve gotten to scale? Jason : He does have a significant amount of scale though.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: And then another client of ours is an international company that has decided that they truly want to scale up in San Francisco. We don’t know when we’re going to be able to get safely back at scale. And they’re going to reduce their commute by 45 minutes. We’ve been doing it for over a decade.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

In this session, Anna and Sameer will highlight SendGrid’s journey from growth stage through acquisition and why focusing on people and culture is mission critical to success as a company goes through the scaling process. We should talk about that more and then we can scale that more? Want to see more content like this?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This week, we’re proud to unveil its successor: Resolution Bot , Intercom’s upgraded support chatbot that scales your team by answering 33% of common questions. It’s been easy for about 30 years to make something that would match keywords and try to give an answer from a bank of answers. Short on time? Why is that?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Cassie is an operating partner at Primary Venture Partners, where she works closely with Primary’s portfolio companies to help them build, scale and optimize their go-to-market efforts. I started my career in tech sales 4 years ago as a SDR and have since scaled two SDR teams. What you do matters, but character matters more.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

So inevitably, when startups evolve and start to scale, they get off course and this is especially true in times of stormy weather, almost by definition, and to invoke a sailing metaphor in the days before GPS, sailors used the North Star to determine where they were. Banking and FinTech, all over the place. E-commerce is on fire.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. And you get folks like Tobi at Shopify and also this room, I’d like to think, are now part of this club that’s driving tech innovation and tech value creation and job creation on a massive massive scale. Byron : Hmm.

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